InitiateRemus wrote:Can you dismiss the idea of evil as a force in the universe and maintain that Karma exists?

Yes. Though I think there are dark entities because I've encountered them. In fact the worst the day after I denied their existance, which proved some sort of point. Mainly to be careful what you say. Karma is just cause and effect.

Are the "left hand path" people the only ones who do this?

Don't know. Do what exactly?

Why is the LHP seen as evil?

Because the RHP divides. It sees the options as clinging to one end of the spectrum and rejecting the other, whereas any true LHPer (though I'm not all that fond of the term as that makes it easy to misrepresent it as a dualistic and limiting concept)knows you do not need to reject anything out of hand, that you need to embrace and immerse yourself in reality in all it's many forms. So those on the RHP see only that you are not apparently 'good' or constrained and well behaved, which it depends on for its security.

Is the historical dislike of left-handed and LHP people for their recurringly being noted for their uncanny skills and unnatural talents?

Possibly. or that they are not understood because they don't fit into a predominantly right handed world which is left brained and loves to put things in little meaningless boxes.

Though I cannot remember the particulars, I know that the xtians have long associated left handedness with evil. I'm a lefty and can remember well the bias against us "south-paws" in my youth. It wasn't uncommon to have educators, parents, etc., trying to "train" children under their charge out of lefthandedness, more often than not, due to this association.

If you care to do the research, I would be most interested in what you found out about this subject.